A team headed by Matthew French, a senior supervising computer scientist at the USC Information Sciences Institute, is garnering attention for a novel approach to coding field programmable gate array (FPGA) chips.
The work won Best Short Paper at the 25th IEEE Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines symposium in May this year, and more recently was covered by the Xilinx, Inc. industry journal and by The Next Platform, a United Kingdom-based news site. "It's one thing to think your own work is exciting," says French. "It's another when it reverberates through the research community."
His team's aim: to enable scientists to take advantage of FPGA hardware capabilities without needing to understand their complex, underlying functionality. Where conventional chips generally perform fixed functions, FPGAs are designed to be customized and reconfigured post-manufacturing. Hardware can be tailored on the fly without physically swapping out chips, which eliminates the need to create new custom interfaces for every new hardware function. The programmable chips also can offer dramatic speed gains over their conventional cousins. But FPGAs remain notoriously difficult to code and use.Read More
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2:00pm - 3:00pm PDTA team headed by Matthew French, a senior supervising computer scientist at the USC Information Sciences Institute, is garnering attention for a novel approach to coding field programmable gate array (FPGA) chips.
The work won Best Short Paper at the 25th IEEE Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines symposium in May this year, and more recently was covered by the Xilinx, Inc. industry journal and by The Next Platform, a United Kingdom-based news site. "It's one thing to think your own work is exciting," says French. "It's another when it reverberates through the research community."
His team's aim: to enable scientists to take advantage of FPGA hardware capabilities without needing to understand their complex, underlying functionality. Where conventional chips generally perform fixed functions, FPGAs are designed to be customized and reconfigured post-manufacturing. Hardware can be tailored on the fly without physically swapping out chips, which eliminates the need to create new custom interfaces for every new hardware function. The programmable chips also can offer dramatic speed gains over their conventional cousins. But FPGAs remain notoriously difficult to code and use.Read More
